Most plugins can be used with any JetBrains product. Some are limited only to commercial products. There are also plugins that require a separate license.

If a plugin depends on some other plugin, PyCharm will notify you about the dependencies. If your project depends on certain plugins, add them to the list of required plugins.

If some functionality is not covered by existing plugins, you can create your own plugin for PyCharm. For information about developing plugins, see Develop you own plugins.

By default, PyCharm includes a number of bundled plugins. You can disable bundled plugins, but they cannot be removed. You can install additional plugins from the plugin repository or from a local archive file (ZIP or JAR).

Install plugin from disk

In the Settings/Preferences dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), select Plugins.

In the Plugins dialog, click and then click Install Plugin from Disk.

Select the plugin archive file and click OK.

Click OK to apply the changes and restart the IDE if prompted.

Custom plugin repositories

By default, PyCharm is configured to use plugins from the JetBrains Plugin Repository. This is where all the community plugins are hosted, and you are free to host your plugins there. However, if you develop plugins for internal use only, you can set up a custom plugin repository for them.

In the Plugins dialog, click and then click Manage Plugin Repositories.

In the Custom Plugin Repositories dialog, click and specify your repository URL. It must point to the location of the updatePlugins.xml file. The file can be on the same server as your custom plugins, or on a dedicated one.

Click Check Now in the Add Repository dialog to make sure that the URL is correct. Then click OK to add the repository URL.

Click OK in the Custom Plugin Repositories dialog to save the list of plugin repositories.

Click OK in the Plugins dialog to apply the changes.

To browse the custom plugin repository, type repository: followed by the URL of the repository in the Marketplace tab of the Plugins dialog. For example:

Alternatively, you can replace the default JetBrains Plugin Repository with your custom repository URL. This can be helpful if you want only your custom repository plugins to be available from PyCharm. To do this, edit the platform properties or VM options file as described below. For more information, see Tuning PyCharm.

Replace the default plugin repository with a custom one

On the main menu, select either Help | Edit Custom Properties or Help | Edit Custom VM Options.

Add the idea.plugins.host property to the platform properties file or the -Didea.plugins.host option to the VM options file. For example:

If you replace the default plugin repository with your custom one, the search field on the Marketplace tab of the Plugins dialog will browse only the plugins in your custom repository.

Required plugins

A project may require plugins that add support for certain technologies or frameworks. You can add such plugins to the list of required plugins for the current project, so that PyCharm will verify that the plugins are installed and enabled. It will notify you if you forget about some plugin or someone on your team is not aware about the dependency as they work on the project.